DETROIT -- Players anticipate a festive atmosphere tonight at the United Center in the first conference finals game in Chicago in 14 years, since the Red Wings defeated the Blackhawks in 1995.

"It'll be crazy,'' defenseman Brett Lebda, a Chicago native, said. "When we played in Edmonton (in the 2006 playoffs), I said that was probably the loudest building I've heard playing hockey, This might beat it. There's 23,000 people jammed in there, they're excited about their team being in the Western Conference finals. They're down 0-2, they're going to do everything they can to give their team a boost. We have to do everything we can to take them out.''

Said goaltender Chris Osgood: "It'll fire us up. It's going to be loud and raucous, but we feed off that.''